"Beyond Glasnost is a thoughtful exploration of the past decade's cultural and political ferment in Eastern Europe. It is also something else: an argument—in a deceptively unassuming, anti-ideological voice—about how to conceive of and move toward freedom; an argument that could hardly be more relevant to the roiling debates on the Western left."—Ellen Willis, Village Voice

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Cynical Society and On Cultural Freedom, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface, 1991
Foreword by Jan Jozef Szczepanski
Acknowledgments
IntroductionPart One - Totalitarianism
1. What Is Totalitarianism?
2. Newspeak and the Politics of Force
3. The Limits of NewspeakPart Two - Post-Totalitarianism
4. Truth, Politics, and Autonomous Culture
5. Autonomous PoliticsPart Three - The Post-Totalitarian Mind and the Neototalitarian State
6. The Post-Totalitarian Terrain
7. The Withering Away of Totalitarianism?
Epilogue: Them and Us
Notes
Index

"Beyond Glasnost is a thoughtful exploration of the past decade's cultural and political ferment in Eastern Europe. It is also something else: an argument—in a deceptively unassuming, anti-ideological voice—about how to conceive of and move toward freedom; an argument that could hardly be more relevant to the roiling debates on the Western left."—Ellen Willis, Village Voice

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Cynical Society and On Cultural Freedom, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface, 1991
Foreword by Jan Jozef Szczepanski
Acknowledgments
IntroductionPart One - Totalitarianism
1. What Is Totalitarianism?
2. Newspeak and the Politics of Force
3. The Limits of NewspeakPart Two - Post-Totalitarianism
4. Truth, Politics, and Autonomous Culture
5. Autonomous PoliticsPart Three - The Post-Totalitarian Mind and the Neototalitarian State
6. The Post-Totalitarian Terrain
7. The Withering Away of Totalitarianism?
Epilogue: Them and Us
Notes
Index